Gillian Creese

The New African Diaspora in Vancouver

Migration, Exclusion and Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442642959
• ISBN-10: 1442642955
• Artikelnr.: 33806036

Autorenporträt

Gillian Creese is the associate dean of Arts, Faculty & Equity, and professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness'
1 A New African Diaspora
2 Erasing Linguistic Capital
3 Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers
4 Reproducing Difference at Work
5 Gender, Families, and Transitions
6 Identity and Spaces of Belonging
7 Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community
Notes
References